I’ve decided this year I’m going to put the serious stuff on hold and draw something silly and, hopefully, funny. I’m calling the main character Charlie Dandelion; Dandelion because his massive ‘fro and skinny body makes him look like one, and Charlie because of what happened last week in Paris. It’s not meant as a response to that, because any response I make will be, I think, meaningless next to the horror of what happened. Some people drew some pictures, and they were murdered for it.

I didn’t even like the original pictures; I can see why they did them, and respect their motives, but I didn’t like the pictures. But when men with guns try to censor the world, there’s only one side to take, and that’s Charlie’s, so I’m calling my character Charlie in a small act of solidarity with them.

Other than that, there’s a snow leopard in it, and aliens, and, unusually for me, I already know where the story is going, and how the first episode will end, so I might even finish it…

These are some short comics I’ve been working on this last week, in between some work for Accent UK. The Humpty one is an example of something I do in workshops; using song lyrics or poems to make comics. The other one is just a bit of silliness because I like drawing tortoises.